Five years ago, a young director made a documentary about a man named Paul Mawhinney who owns the largest record collection in the world. The short piece told the story of Paul’s struggle to keep his archive alive. In 2008, he had to close his store, Record-Rama, where he sold music and kept the last copies…

If my computer was a real place, it would probably look like Rainbow Music. Ya won’t know what ‘messy’ truly is until you’ve stepped inside the world of Rainbow music of East Village, New York. A chaos of CDs, tapes and videos stacked up on almost every inch of floor space, the shop doesn’t even…

It’s rare that I come across a brand with real heart and sass in my inbox, so when Houndworthy dropped me a note, I got a little giddy. Like it says on the tin, Houndworthy is a purveyor of quality dog goods, you know, the stuff that lasts. Their online shop is a pleasure to…

“So apparently Vancouver has something of a submarine graveyard,” says graphic designer/ photographer Emanuel Smedbøl alongside his instagram photos that popped up on my newsfeed and subsequently sent me into a spiral of google searches, from “used research submarines for sale” to “de-militarised Russian sub for cheap“. (I’m easily distracted). A bathysphere in a Vancouver…

In Boerum Place, Brooklyn, New York lives a man in an apartment with many things. Chong Gon Byun is his name and he arrived in New York City from Korea 25 years ago. Your initial thoughts on Byun might be that he is an obsessive vintage gatherer, a flea market bargain hunter, a hoarder. But a closer…

In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon sign was secretly glowing and flickering since the Great Depression, until it was discovered after 62 years, having accumulated over $17,000 in electricity bills for the unwitting owners. The sign was purchased in 1935 but later stored out of…

Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing that mattered was building sand castles and crashing into the sea– not how far your bikini bottoms were riding up your ass. So I’ve done some digging for you and here are my picks…

That pink suit! It is by far the most dapper suit I’ve ever seen on a man (Robert Redford helped a little too). And with the highly-anticipated remake about to hit our screens, some fashion people went and did some really clever marketing. Brooks Brothers has teamed up with the men’s costume designer of the…

Seriously, we need to stop Facebook-ing our loved ones for their birthdays or when the holidays come around. But if you type E-card into Google, you’ll probably be faced with a lot of options that make you think you might just be better off posting on their Facebook wall. Enter Paperless Post. A beautiful e-card…

There’s so much wonderful artwork on the web, shared on various blogs, in memes and on social networks, but the trouble is, it’s always on a computer screen. Until now. Society6 is a new kind of online shop that’s taking that supercool graphic you saw on an art Tumblr once, the quirky illustration you’ve been…